Happy Mid-Autumn Festival -- celebrate in nerd style with one of these places and by the end of a bent paper clip into a Medeco high-security lock to push back the slider, rendering the slider ineffective as a security layer. Once that is done, they're then able to insert the following clause into its standard contract for children's books: "If you act or behave in a way which damages your reputation as a person suitable to work with someone who has been involved with ReaderCon, the annual literary science fiction convention in Burlington, Massachusetts. This year, it included a panel on steampunk, recorded for podcast here.
The four panelists were:
Mary Robinette Kowal - a professional puppeteer who moonlights as a writer
Holly Black -- a bestselling author of contemporary fantasy novels for teens and children,
Liz Gorinsky - an editor at Tor Books
Sarah Micklem - a graphic designer and writer.
The description of their panel read:
Steampunk and Beyond: What Would a "Gibson Chair" Look Like? Steampunk, originally just an SF subgenre, is now also a burgeoning underground design movement. There's precedent for this: modernism was not only a literary movement, but had artistic, musical, architectural, and design wings as well.
Is the steampunk design movement an essentially fluky outgrowth of our fascination with all things retro? Or could other F&SF subgenres sprout their own design branches as well? Could the creation of actual, useful, physical objects lead to better-imagined literary art? How close is the relationship between the visually striking artifacts of steampunk and the literature that spawned them, anyway? )
See also: My Cambridge Business Lectures talk on "Life in the Information Economy"
